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Summary Haiti, land of contradictions they say, where the past is not just remembered but lived. The soil still carries the footprints of revolution, the...

I have watched her ascend, this girl of mine, from the moment she could grasp the weight of a book in her tiny hands....

Push, Don’t Pull: What Fidelity Taught Me About Banking, Corruption, and Haitian Sovereignty Money moves, but not freely. It is watched, monitored, tagged, and caged...

When the Mapou Sings: Haiti’s History in Verse and Silence The minute I opened When the Mapou Sings, I was grateful that I did not...

The Citadelle Henry and the palace of Sans-Souci still stand, two centuries later. Stone upon stone, carved from sweat and will, they endure. What...

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If...

A friend from the neighborhood stopped by last night with his wife and their 18-year-old daughter, bright-eyed, standing at the edge of her future,...

During one of our monthly Afro-Caribbean men’s domino gatherings—the kind where the slap of the tiles carries the weight of history and pride—a debate...

Summary Whenever I hear 1804 Haitian fanatics—those who shout with fevered breath about the glories of the Haitian Revolution, about the unshakable will of Christophe,...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0YfI1CB0kAzG9jJCCC4RHZ?si=PXwzGnj-QsWfuJDImupJAQ This second reading is nothing less than a conscientious effort to weave together the manifold strands of Charlemagne Péralte’s remarkable and harrowing life—a fractured...